Quotes About Justice

You're not free if you can't marry the person you love because a county clerk is imposing his or her interpretation of religion on you.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

I would hate for people to think that 'Strong Island' is just about a family's grief. It is about a family's grief, yes, but it is also an interrogation of our criminal justice system.

Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

America should always stand for human rights and freedom, but not through endless military intervention.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

Sylvan dropped the limply dangling hand and took the other man by the chin. He stared into Burke's eyes, wide with pain and fear. "Think about this the next time you're tempted to hurt a female. Any female," he growled. "And I don't care how many years ago your encounter with Sophia was—if you ever come near her again, I'll kill you. Slowly." Then

Ignorance of the law is not excuse for breaking it. Make no mistake about it,

A true king never robs his people of peace.

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

The U.N. now says that one out of three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in their lifetime; we're talking about the desecration of the primary resource of the planet."

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

Lentamente compresi come nulla fosse più importante del porre fine alla violenza nei confronti delle donne, che in verità la dissacrazione delle donne rivelava il fallimento degli esseri umani nell'onorare e proteggere la vita

We have to say that what happens to women matters to everyone and it matters a lot.

Não aguento mais a passividade dos homens bons. Cadê vocês, merda? Vocês vivem com a gente, transam com a gente, nos têm como filhas, amigas, irmãs, são nutridos, criados e eternamente amados por nós, e como não lutam do nosso lado? Por que não vão à loucura e tomam uma atitude contra nosso estupro e nossa humilhação?

We don't accept your world your rules your wars We don't accept your cruelty and unkindness. We don't believe some need to suffer for others to survive or that there isn't enough to go around or that corporations are the only and best economic arrangement. And

When the world is right, it will be the unpaid and unsung people like Cindy who will be the honored ones, the ones who get paid the most, and they will sit at the big table. When the world is right, it will be these invisible people who we see and cherish.

Lasting social and cultural change is spread by ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

Non c'è dolore inflitto coscientemente a qualcuno che non ci torni indietro decuplicato

esse não era só um monólogo, só uma peça, mas também um poderoso catalisador de conscientização e justiça.

I am over the passivity of good men. Where the hell are you? You live with us, make love with us, father us, befriend us, brother us, get nurtured and mothered and eternally supported by us, so why aren't you standing with us? Why aren't you driven to madness and action by the rape and humiliation of us?